Darling-Hammond / Adamson Beyond the Bubble Test

How Performance Assessments Support 21st Century Learning
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-88929-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 464 Seiten, E-Book

Performance assessment is a hot topic in school systems, andeducators continue to analyze its costs, benefits, and feasibilityas a replacement for high-stakes testing. Until now, researchersand policymakers have had to dig to find out what we know and whatwe still have to learn about performance assessment. Beyondthe Bubble Test: How Performance Assessments Support 21st CenturyLearning synthesizes the latest findings in the field, andnot a moment too soon.
Statistics indicate that the United States is in danger offalling behind if it fails to adapt to our changing world. Thememory and recall strategies of traditional testing are no longeradequate to equip our students with the skills they need to excelin the global economy. Instead teachers need to engage students indeeper learning, assessing their ability to use higher-orderskills.
Skills like synthesizing information, understanding evidence,and critical problem-solving are not achieved when we teach tomultiple-choice exams. Examples in Beyond the BubbleTest paint a useful picture of how schools can begin tosupplement traditional tests with something that works better. Thisbook provides new perspectives on current performance assessmentresearch, plus an incisive look at what's possible at thelocal and state levels.
Linda Darling-Hammond, with a team of leading scholars, bringtogether lessons learned, new directions, and solid recommendationsinto a single, readily accessible compendium. Beyond theBubble Test situates the current debate on performanceassessment within the context of testing in the United States. Thiscomprehensive resource also looks beyond our U.S. borders toSingapore, Hong Kong, and other places whose reform-mindedness canserve as an example to us.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Darling-Hammond, Linda

Adamson, Frank

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
The Authors ix
1 Introduction: The Rationale and Context for Performance Assessment 1
Linda Darling-Hammond
Part o n e : Through a Looking Glass: Performance Assessment Past, Present, and Future 15
2 Looking Back: Performance Assessment in an Era of Standards-Based Educational Accountability 17
Brian Stecher
3 Where We Are Now: Lessons Learned and Emerging Directions 53
Raymond Pecheone and Stuart Kahl with the Assistance of Jillian Chingos and Ann Jaquith
4. Reaching Out: International Benchmarks for Performance Assessment 93
Linda Darling-Hammond with the Assistance of Laura Wentworth
Part t w o : Advances in Performance Assessment: Assessing and Supporting Learning 131
5 Performance Assessment: The State of the Art 133
Suzanne Lane
6 Adapting Performance Assessments for English Language Learners 185
Jamal Abedi
7 Supporting Teacher Learning through Performance Assessment 207
Linda Darling-Hammond and Beverly Falk
Part t h r e e : Policy and Performance Assessment: Developing Systems That Can Work 237
8 A New Conceptual Framework for Cost Analysis 239
Lawrence O. Picus, Frank Adamson, William Montague, and Margaret Owens
9 Investing in Assessments of Deeper Learning: The Costs and Benefits of Tests That Help Students Learn 259
Barry Topol, John Olson, Ed Roeber, Linda Darling-Hammond, and Frank Adamson
10 Building Systems of Assessment for Deeper Learning 277
David T. Conley and Linda Darling-Hammond
11 Concluding Thoughts: Creating Next-Generation Assessments That Last 311
Linda Darling-Hammond, Frank Adamson, and Thomas Toch
Appendix A: State Performance Tasks 323
Appendix B: New Approaches to Performance Assessment 353
Appendix C: A Framework for Measuring the Costs, Expenditures, and Benefits of Performance Assessment 363
Appendix D: Spending for Interim Testing at the Local District Level 377
Notes 383
References 387
Name Index 423
Subject Index 429

Über Autor(innen)

LINDA DARLING-HAMMOND is Charles E. Ducommun Professor ofEducation and Faculty Director of the Stanford Center forOpportunity Policy in Education at Stanford University.Darling-Hammond is a former president of the American EducationalResearch Association and a member of the National Academy ofEducation. Her research and policy work focuses on issues ofeducational equity, teaching quality, school reform, andperformance assessment. Among Darling-Hammond's over 300publications are Preparing Teachers for a Changing World(with John Bransford, for the National Academy of Education) andThe Right to Learn.
FRANK ADAMSON is a Policy and Research Analyst at theStanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE). Hecurrently focuses on the adoption of assessments of deeper learningand twenty-first-century skills. He also conducts research oneducational equity and opportunities to learn and has published onteacher salary differences within labor markets in New York andCalifornia.